http://www.npr.org/thisibelieve/about.html
is a case in point. These are sanctimonious sermons by a bunch of pious geezers a la Carroll Cox - only more popular - milling hackneyed banalities that one usually hears from the pulpit on a Sunday morning.
I am not sure whether the NPR does this to merely fulfill its mandate as the empire's mouthpiece for the professional class, or in response to popular demand of that class. If the latter, the readiness of this country's professional class to embrace theocracy is more advanced than previously thought. We are heading for a big revival of religion to opiate the frustrated masses of consumers. Why settling for a cheap NPR imitation when one can have a real bible thumping thing for free?
There is no hope, or so it seems. We are all screwed. I do not even wait for Stalingrad anymore - it won't be during my lifetime, if it happens at all.
Wojtek